Overview
The opportunity In this role, you will report to the Regional Finance Director for Europe and serve as a key operational and strategic partner to the regional M&S; leadership team. You will be responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and interpreting market, customer, and sales order data to enable the M&S; organization in the region to evaluate business alternatives and drive profitable demand order growth aligned with global objectives.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Monitor and analyze progress on sales KPIs, including order intake and pipeline development at regional, country, segment, and account levels, providing insights to support strategic and operational decision-making.
- Lead the regional sales forecasting process, ensuring data accuracy and reliable volume projections.
- Support the annual budget cycle and periodic financial outlooks in close collaboration with CMD/LSMs and regional/global BU and M&S; teams.
- Drive and support M&S; productivity optimization, sales efficiency, and sustainable overdue reduction.
- Facilitate regular performance reviews with regional sales teams.
- Deliver accurate and timely regional sales reports, dashboards, and in-depth analyses.
- Improve transparency through continuous enhancement of reporting tools and insights.
- Provide timely monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc sales reports to management.
- Conduct deep-dive analyses on market trends, customer performance, and portfolio mix.
- Further develop dashboards and BI tools to improve transparency and insights.
- Identify opportunities to streamline and standardize sales controlling processes.
- Drive digitalization of analytics, reporting, and forecasting tools.
- Support capability building within the sales organization on financial topics.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives and optimize processes through integration and digitalization of tools supporting analysis and information intelligence.
Your background
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance or Business Administration.
- Good understanding of what drives the business with strong business acumen.
- Ambitious attitude with a strong analytical mindset and a high sense of responsibility.
- Experience working in an international environment.
- Strong team player with strong collaboration skills.
- English is a prerequisite as you will be operating in an international environment.
- Strong knowledge of MS Office with experience in analytical tools such as Power BI.
About Hitachi Energy
Hitachi Energy is a general technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.
With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.
Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.
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